On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 01:42:29PM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 12:52:30PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > Add a text explaining how to quickly build a kernel, as that's something > > users will often have to do when they want to report an issue or test > > proposed fixes. This is a huge and frightening task for quite a few > > users these days, as many rely on pre-compiled kernels and have never > > built their own. They find help on quite a few websites explaining the > > process in various ways, but those howtos often omit important details > > or make things too hard for the 'quickly build just for testing' case > > that 'localmodconfig' is really useful for. Hence give users something > > at hand to guide them, as that makes it easier for them to help with > > testing, debugging, and fixing the kernel. > > First off, this is great, thanks for doing this. > > One minor comment, to prevent people from "overloading" the > git.kernel.org systems: > > > +.. _sources_sbs: > > + > > + * Retrieve the sources of the Linux version you intend to build; then change > > + into the directory holding them, as all further commands in this guide are > > + meant to be executed from there. > > + > > + If you plan to only build one particular kernel version, download its source > > + archive from https://kernel.org; afterwards extract its content to '~/linux/' > > + and change into the directory created during extraction. > > + > > + In most other situations your best choice is to fetch the sources using git:: > > + > > + git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git \ > > + ~/linux/sources > > + cd ~/linux/sources/ > > Ideally you should never do a "full clone from scratch" like this, as it > takes up loads of server resources. The "best" way to do this is to > download the kernel git bundle, and then pull and resolve the remaining > bits. It's explained, with a script to do the work for you, here: > > https://kernel.org/best-way-to-do-linux-clones-for-your-ci.html Oops, here's the full steps involved: https://www.kernel.org/cloning-linux-from-a-bundle.html the first link above has a script that does it all for you, but you probably just want to copy the steps at this last link instead. thanks, greg k-h
